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Data-driven research in Additive Manufacturing (AM) has gained significant success in recent years. This has led to a plethora of scientific literature to emerge. The knowledge in these works consists of AM and Artificial Intelligence (AI) contexts that have not been mined and formalized in an integrated way. Moreover, no tools or guidelines exist to support data-driven knowledge transfer from one context to another. As a result, data-driven solutions using specific AI techniques are being developed and validated only for specific AM process technologies. There is a potential to exploit the inherent similarities across various AM technologies and adapt the existing solutions from one process or problem to another using AI, such as Transfer Learning. We propose a three-step knowledge transferability analysis framework in AM to support data-driven AM knowledge transfer. As a prerequisite to transferability analysis, AM knowledge is featurized into identified knowledge components. The framework consists of pre-transfer, transfer, and post-transfer steps to accomplish knowledge transfer. A case study is conducted between flagship metal AM processes. Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is the source of knowledge motivated by its relative matureness in applying AI over Directed Energy Deposition (DED), which drives the need for knowledge transfer as the less explored target process. We show successful transfer at different levels of the data-driven solution, including data representation, model architecture, and model parameters. The pipeline of AM knowledge transfer can be automated in the future to allow efficient cross-context or cross-process knowledge exchange., Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures. This paper has been accepted to be published in the proceedings of IDETC-CIE 2023

Dispatching strategies for gas turbines (GTs) are changing in modern electricity grids. A growing incorporation of intermittent renewable energy requires GTs to operate more but shorter cycles and more frequently on partial loads. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently emerged as a tool that can cope with this development and dispatch GTs economically. The key advantages of DRL are a model-free optimization and the ability to handle uncertainties, such as those introduced by varying loads or renewable energy production. In this study, three popular DRL algorithms are implemented for an economic GT dispatch problem on a case study in Alberta, Canada. We highlight the benefits of DRL by incorporating an existing thermodynamic software provided by Siemens Energy into the environment model and by simulating uncertainty via varying electricity prices, loads, and ambient conditions. Among the tested algorithms and baseline methods, Deep Q-Networks (DQN) obtained the highest rewards while Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) was the most sample efficient. We further propose and implement a method to assign GT operation and maintenance cost dynamically based on operating hours and cycles. Compared to existing methods, our approach better approximates the true cost of modern GT dispatch and hence leads to more realistic policies., Comment: This work has been accepted to IFAC for publication under a Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-ND

Recent applications of machine learning in metal additive manufacturing (MAM) have demonstrated significant potential in addressing critical barriers to the widespread adoption of MAM technology. Recent research in this field emphasizes the importance of utilizing melt pool signatures for real-time defect prediction. While high-quality melt pool image data holds the promise of enabling precise predictions, there has been limited exploration into the utilization of cutting-edge spatiotemporal models that can harness the inherent transient and sequential characteristics of the additive manufacturing process. This research introduces and puts into practice some of the leading deep spatiotemporal learning models that can be adapted for the classification of melt pool image streams originating from various materials, systems, and applications. Specifically, it investigates two-stream networks comprising spatial and temporal streams, a recurrent spatial network, and a factorized 3D convolutional neural network. The capacity of these models to generalize when exposed to perturbations in melt pool image data is examined using data perturbation techniques grounded in real-world process scenarios. The implemented architectures demonstrate the ability to capture the spatiotemporal features of melt pool image sequences. However, among these models, only the Kinetics400 pre-trained SlowFast network, categorized as a two-stream network, exhibits robust generalization capabilities in the presence of data perturbations., Comment: This work has been accepted to IFAC for publication under a Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-ND

The STEP-NC-AP 238 and ISO 14649 standard is the result of a 10-year international effort to replace the RS274D (ISO 6983) G and M code standard with a modern associative language that connects the CAD design data used to determine the machining requirements for an operation with the CAM process data that is used in creating a machining solution to satisfy these requirements. STEP-NC builds on the previous 10 years effort to develop the STEP neutral data standard for CAD data, and uses the modern geometric constructs in that standard to specify device independent tool paths, and CAM independent volume removal features. STEP-Manufacturing, Team 24 in Working Group 3 (WG3) of ISO TC184/SC4, is developing and validating the STEP-NC standard in liaison with Working Group (WG7) of ISO TC184/SC1 who provides the domain-specific input (ISO 14649) used within the standard. This paper reviews the demonstrations carried out by STEP-Manufacturing over the past 10 years. These demonstrations have been international collaborations between industry, academia, and research agencies. Each demonstration focused on extending the STEP-NC data model for a different application., QC 20131017